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I enjoy my life. I am grateful for it. I enjoy this journaling 30 day challenge. I enjoy writing and SoulCollage®. I enjoy learning from my artistic writers, souljourners, and inspiring women leaders. I enjoy the quality of integrity and compassion, freely shared with me by others. I enjoy the dawn of each new day, whether I witness the sun’s rise or just give thanks for its daily appearance above the horizon. I enjoy the family and heritage I have. I enjoy my happy, love-filled home. I enjoy the labyrinth in the backyard we created this summer. I enjoy being on and traveling the path I have in life. I enjoy manifesting the means for our trip to Ireland in 2015. I enjoy feeling as if it is happening right now!

Hi Lisa after a very long time with my enormous toolkit of skills I have decided to hold a workshop…this has largely arisen from the journaling process you have so generously offered…I have denied myself over and over with the busyness of family and slowly my sense of worth dropped in this particular area. I have decided to draw on all my resources to support me and to really focus on the deepest resource of all ME…the unfolding is fearful and exciting…trusting the process has been done in gentle increments by tapping into the ROOT xxx

Hi Lisa I just read your blog post. The part about the deep sadness (grief) you felt on your Birthday about feeling like your dreams had slipped away….you were so far from them. I’ve felt that a few times in my life. I only recently had some ideas about why this happens.

At this point in life I believe one of two things are at the root of temporarily loosing the dream well maybe three I thought of another…..

Perhaps by thinking you’ve lost the dreams you get it touch with whether it is still meaningful to you (this just came to me). And as you know some dreams evolve and we do eventually let them go.

Also it could be a signal that you are just simply off course ie:not living from inside your dream.

At the heart for me was …..time. I have come to see recently that some of my dreams took time. It is part of being a creative and the archetypal visionary…….ideas come far ahead of actually manifesting or they are runners for what will really manifest. I had written a series for young people about young people accomplishing amazing things environmentally and socially. I had it registered with writers guild for years it was almost produced several times. A year or so ago I didn’t have the $10 to renew so I let it go. But this I see has evolved into a love of stories, stories about people finding meaning /doing extraordinary things and also it led to my other work in sustainability which continues to unfold.

The dream I keep losing is of writing these stories and essays, letting my voice be heard. Being in school I realized some things that were missing. You can create in a vacuum but you can’t manifest in it easily…..I wasn’t a fit for my dream yet….not in the right place, nor tribe. There is no prescription for how you get there, All I can say is you keep it in your heart, keep following what holds passion and joy….has that ‘hit’ to it……and most of all believe in yourself. And know this for sure, you are never truly drifting away from your dream you are actually making your way there….sometimes it is circular path…..the circle is the symbol for self, the divine, sacred space and for the soul. A natural pattern for the path to an important dream.

Hola! I'm Lisa Sonora. ME: an American artist and author living in Mexico. YOU: Crave more creativity, more meaning, more adventures — and are tired of the same old stuff getting in your way. Creativity + Travel + Courage has been the theme of my blog since 2002, and sums up my life mission: to dare to make my life a creative adventure and to help women create more, stress less, and take meaningful, once-in-a-lifetime creative journeys. Welcome to my virtual studio. It’s messy in here.
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